Reese Erlich, Freelance Correspondent and Author of Inside Syria, says the irony in the support to the Kurds in Kobani is that PKK is considered a terrorist organization by the US

A Danish court has released 10 men who were charged with fundraising for the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

The Copenhagen City Court said on Wednesday that prosecutors had not proven that an estimated 130 million kroner ($22 million) transferred to Kurdish organizations was actually channeled to the PKK, according to an Associated Press report.

The PKK is classified as a terrorist organization by the United States, Turkey and the European Union.

The acquittal came at a time when criticisms of several Danish officials mounted over Turkey's release of Basil Hassan, a Danish suspect in an assassination attempt against Lars Hedegaard, a former columnist for a top Danish newspaper who is known for his outspoken criticism of Islam. The release of Hassan spurred a crisis between Turkey and Denmark when it was claimed in the media that he was among the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants swapped by Turkey in return for ISIL's release of its hostages in August.

Denmark also summoned the Turkish ambassador, according to reports in the foreign media on Thursday.

Turkey said in a written statement on Wednesday that it understands the concerns extended by the Danish officials and stressed that the decision to release Hassan is not a preference of the government but of the judiciary. “Further developments on the issue will be meticulously followed and our Danish counterparts will be informed as we cooperate with them,” read the statement.

Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt said on Tuesday that Denmark is still seeking answers as to why Hassan is not under arrest. Speaking to the Danish Politiken daily, she said it is unacceptable that Turkey has released the suspect and that the matter is not over.

Danish Justice Minister Mette Frederiksen also said on Sunday that Turkish officials have confirmed the release of the suspect in an assassination attempt against Hedegaard, but offered no explanation as to why he was released. Frederiksen expressed her anger at not getting a response from Turkey after a delegation of Danish officials visited Ankara last Friday, saying: “The Turkish authorities have refrained from giving an answer concerning this matter. We are still waiting for an explanation as to why the suspect was released from custody in Turkey.”

Denmark sent a delegation of government officials to Turkey on Oct. 17 to meet with the National Intelligence Organization (MİT), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Justice regarding the status of the suspect, but is unhappy with the lack of information provided regarding the release.

The confirmation of the release of the suspect has stirred a strong reaction in Denmark. Hedegaard, a historian and author known for his anti-Islamic views, was convicted of hate speech for his remarks about Muslims. The conviction was later overturned by a higher court.

The Turkish press quoted Frederiksen as saying: "Turkish officials have confirmed the release of the suspect previously involved in an armed assault on Lars Hedegaard. As is known, the release of said suspect has been debated for the last couple of weeks. It has now been confirmed. But it is not possible to understand or accept Turkey's approach.”

Jack HawkinsWed Oct 22, 10:04:00 PM EDTThe Zionists have raveled the world, killing those the deem enemies.Even waiters in Europe that 'looked' like they were someone they were not.

The 'Mossad' has killed scores across Central America, helping to maintain the most rancid regimes in Guatemala, Panama, El Salvador and Honduras. Regimes that even the US refused to support, the Israeli jumped right in, teaching the techniques of population subjugation they had refined in Palestine.Techniques now being aught to US police orces across the land, fuckin' terrible things that are happening while we watch it occur.

The 13 volumes of documents are a goldmine. They expose covert CIA operations in Iran (an attempt to recurit former Prime Minister Bani Sadr, for example), reveal the CIA's use of corporate covers, and detail former Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan's attempts to establish ties with U.S. intelligence.

The documents supplied to CounterSpy deal with the triangle of U.S.-Israeli-Iranian relations. A careful reading of the documents illustrates that the Washington Post's analysis was narrowly focussed on the "U.S. angle." Other disclosures were simply glossed over — systematic Israeli suppression of domestic dissent, for example, or Mossad (Israel's CIA) and Israeli military intelligence support for repressive regimes in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and even Mossad's "psycholgical warfare projects."

The main document reprinted here is an in-depth CIA analysis of Israeli intelligence, written in March 1979 and classified secret. Other documents [not included in this online version] are cables between the State Department and the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, most of them discussing U.S.-Israeli-Iranian relations (documenting the close collaboration between Mossad and the Shah's intelligence agency SAVAK)....The most reliable response to the Post and Globe articles came from former Mossad chief Isser Harel, who in a Ma'ariv interview called the assertions of the document "malicious," "dilletantish," "distortions ... but probably authentic."

"The report is one-sided and malicious, it ignores Israel's special position in its struggle for survival,"Harel said. He also complained about the CIA document's style, calling it anti-Semitic. He told Ma'ariv it was "shockingly irresponsible" for the CIA to keep a document like this "rolling around" in the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Altogether, Harel concluded, publication of the document had been a "nightmare" for him.

MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE (AFP) - US and allied aircraft have flown nearly 6,600 sorties in the air war against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and dropped more than 1,700 bombs, the American military said Thursday.

The flights for "Operation Inherent Resolve" include thousands of mid-air fueling runs, surveillance sorties and 632 air strikes in Iraq and Syria, according to US Central Command. The latest tally was released one month since the US-led coalition extended its air campaign from Iraq into Syria, in a bid to counter the advance of the ISIS radicals. The effect of the open-ended air campaign remains the subject of debate, with the White House saying the militants have been damaged by the strikes and critics pointing to the group's battlefield successes despite the raids. - See more at: http://www.straitstimes.com/news/world/united-states/story/more-1700-bombs-dropped-us-led-air-war-isis-20141024#sthash.4GttM8en.dpuf

Jack HawkinsWed Oct 22, 10:04:00 PM EDTThe Zionists have raveled the world, killing those the deem enemies.Even waiters in Europe that 'looked' like they were someone they were not.

The 'Mossad' has killed scores across Central America, helping to maintain the most rancid regimes in Guatemala, Panama, El Salvador and Honduras. Regimes that even the US refused to support, the Israeli jumped right in, teaching the techniques of population subjugation they had refined in Palestine.Techniques now being aught to US police orces across the land, fuckin' terrible things that are happening while we watch it occur.

The 13 volumes of documents are a goldmine. They expose covert CIA operations in Iran (an attempt to recurit former Prime Minister Bani Sadr, for example), reveal the CIA's use of corporate covers, and detail former Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan's attempts to establish ties with U.S. intelligence.

The documents supplied to CounterSpy deal with the triangle of U.S.-Israeli-Iranian relations. A careful reading of the documents illustrates that the Washington Post's analysis was narrowly focussed on the "U.S. angle." Other disclosures were simply glossed over — systematic Israeli suppression of domestic dissent, for example, or Mossad (Israel's CIA) and Israeli military intelligence support for repressive regimes in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and even Mossad's "psycholgical warfare projects."

The main document reprinted here is an in-depth CIA analysis of Israeli intelligence, written in March 1979 and classified secret. Other documents [not included in this online version] are cables between the State Department and the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, most of them discussing U.S.-Israeli-Iranian relations (documenting the close collaboration between Mossad and the Shah's intelligence agency SAVAK)....The most reliable response to the Post and Globe articles came from former Mossad chief Isser Harel, who in a Ma'ariv interview called the assertions of the document "malicious," "dilletantish," "distortions ... but probably authentic."

"The report is one-sided and malicious, it ignores Israel's special position in its struggle for survival,"Harel said. He also complained about the CIA document's style, calling it anti-Semitic. He told Ma'ariv it was "shockingly irresponsible" for the CIA to keep a document like this "rolling around" in the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Altogether, Harel concluded, publication of the document had been a "nightmare" for him.

Here's little info on the shithead that's going to keep you from getting Ebola - a typical Obama appointee -

October 23, 2014Ebola czar a population control zealotBy M. Catharine Evans

Yes, Obama’s Ebola Czar thinks overpopulation is the number one problem facing world leaders today.

In a 2008 Georgetown University interview, Ron Klain and his wife Monica Medina, currently Senior Director for International Ocean Policy at the National Geographic Society, shared their concerns about global population growth. Apparently, the earth’s population of 7 billion is out of control especially in UN-designated least developed countries (LDC’s).

Klain says he wants to “make the world work for everyone" and believes too many people, especially on continents like Asia and Africa, are having a negative impact on the planet’s ecosystem. Medina concurs. The former whaling Commissioner says the continued extraction of oil and fish is unsustainable unless we learn how to stop depleting the earth’s resources. The couple, who live in a $1.8 million home in Chevy Chase, warn us that the outlook for the rest of mankind is dismal if we do not take overpopulation and dwindling food supplies seriously.

From the interview:

Klain: I think, I think the top leadership issue in the world today is how to deal with the continuing, growing population of the world and all the resource demands it places on the world and uh uh burgeoning populations in Africa and Asia that lack the resources to have a happy healthy life and I think we have got to find a way to make the world work for everyone…climate change is an issue that impacts that greatly.

Medina:…For future generations to survive I mean it’s right now, we’re extracting oil, we’re extracting resources like fish at such an alarming rate we won’t be able to sustain our planet into the future.

Obama’s appointment of a man with no medical expertise had pundits stumped, but it makes a tad more sense now. As one of the global elites obsessed with overpopulation, an outbreak of a deadly disease in West Africa is a perfect vehicle for Klain. He can now push an agenda that has occupied the ruling class for over a century. Prince Philip once remarked, “If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.” Is Klain set to morph into our first official “population control czar.”

Lebanon itself has at least 1.1 million Syrian refugees, forming a quarter of the tiny Mediterranean country's population of 5 million. The refugees have stretched Lebanon's already fragile infrastructure and compete with the country's poorest for low-paid jobs, causing tensions.

...

Lebanese Information Minister Ramzi Jreij said Lebanon can simply not handle any more refugees.

Ninette Kelley, the U.N. refugee agency's representative in Lebanon, said the country had begun restricting the entry of Syrians since August.

Jack HawkinsWed Oct 22, 10:04:00 PM EDTThe Zionists have raveled the world, killing those the deem enemies.Even waiters in Europe that 'looked' like they were someone they were not.

The 'Mossad' has killed scores across Central America, helping to maintain the most rancid regimes in Guatemala, Panama, El Salvador and Honduras. Regimes that even the US refused to support, the Israeli jumped right in, teaching the techniques of population subjugation they had refined in Palestine.Techniques now being aught to US police orces across the land, fuckin' terrible things that are happening while we watch it occur.

The 13 volumes of documents are a goldmine. They expose covert CIA operations in Iran (an attempt to recurit former Prime Minister Bani Sadr, for example), reveal the CIA's use of corporate covers, and detail former Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan's attempts to establish ties with U.S. intelligence.

The documents supplied to CounterSpy deal with the triangle of U.S.-Israeli-Iranian relations. A careful reading of the documents illustrates that the Washington Post's analysis was narrowly focussed on the "U.S. angle." Other disclosures were simply glossed over — systematic Israeli suppression of domestic dissent, for example, or Mossad (Israel's CIA) and Israeli military intelligence support for repressive regimes in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and even Mossad's "psycholgical warfare projects."

The main document reprinted here is an in-depth CIA analysis of Israeli intelligence, written in March 1979 and classified secret. Other documents [not included in this online version] are cables between the State Department and the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, most of them discussing U.S.-Israeli-Iranian relations (documenting the close collaboration between Mossad and the Shah's intelligence agency SAVAK)....The most reliable response to the Post and Globe articles came from former Mossad chief Isser Harel, who in a Ma'ariv interview called the assertions of the document "malicious," "dilletantish," "distortions ... but probably authentic."

"The report is one-sided and malicious, it ignores Israel's special position in its struggle for survival,"Harel said. He also complained about the CIA document's style, calling it anti-Semitic. He told Ma'ariv it was "shockingly irresponsible" for the CIA to keep a document like this "rolling around" in the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Altogether, Harel concluded, publication of the document had been a "nightmare" for him.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/23/kobani-death-us-air-strikes-550-isis-syriaUS-led air strikes on Syria have killed more than 500 Isis and al-Nusra fighters

I think the cost, to date, is north of $500,000,000.00 and cheap at half the price. Since The Coalition cannot use Turkish bases, the cost is considerably higher than ought to be the case; but no cost is too high to maintain close friendships and alliances.

Jack HawkinsWed Oct 22, 10:04:00 PM EDTThe Zionists have raveled the world, killing those the deem enemies.Even waiters in Europe that 'looked' like they were someone they were not.

The 'Mossad' has killed scores across Central America, helping to maintain the most rancid regimes in Guatemala, Panama, El Salvador and Honduras. Regimes that even the US refused to support, the Israeli jumped right in, teaching the techniques of population subjugation they had refined in Palestine.Techniques now being aught to US police orces across the land, fuckin' terrible things that are happening while we watch it occur.

The 13 volumes of documents are a goldmine. They expose covert CIA operations in Iran (an attempt to recurit former Prime Minister Bani Sadr, for example), reveal the CIA's use of corporate covers, and detail former Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan's attempts to establish ties with U.S. intelligence.

The documents supplied to CounterSpy deal with the triangle of U.S.-Israeli-Iranian relations. A careful reading of the documents illustrates that the Washington Post's analysis was narrowly focussed on the "U.S. angle." Other disclosures were simply glossed over — systematic Israeli suppression of domestic dissent, for example, or Mossad (Israel's CIA) and Israeli military intelligence support for repressive regimes in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and even Mossad's "psycholgical warfare projects."

The main document reprinted here is an in-depth CIA analysis of Israeli intelligence, written in March 1979 and classified secret. Other documents [not included in this online version] are cables between the State Department and the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, most of them discussing U.S.-Israeli-Iranian relations (documenting the close collaboration between Mossad and the Shah's intelligence agency SAVAK)....The most reliable response to the Post and Globe articles came from former Mossad chief Isser Harel, who in a Ma'ariv interview called the assertions of the document "malicious," "dilletantish," "distortions ... but probably authentic."

"The report is one-sided and malicious, it ignores Israel's special position in its struggle for survival,"Harel said. He also complained about the CIA document's style, calling it anti-Semitic. He told Ma'ariv it was "shockingly irresponsible" for the CIA to keep a document like this "rolling around" in the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Altogether, Harel concluded, publication of the document had been a "nightmare" for him.

Jack HawkinsWed Oct 22, 10:04:00 PM EDTThe Zionists have raveled the world, killing those the deem enemies.Even waiters in Europe that 'looked' like they were someone they were not.

The 'Mossad' has killed scores across Central America, helping to maintain the most rancid regimes in Guatemala, Panama, El Salvador and Honduras. Regimes that even the US refused to support, the Israeli jumped right in, teaching the techniques of population subjugation they had refined in Palestine.Techniques now being aught to US police orces across the land, fuckin' terrible things that are happening while we watch it occur.

The 13 volumes of documents are a goldmine. They expose covert CIA operations in Iran (an attempt to recurit former Prime Minister Bani Sadr, for example), reveal the CIA's use of corporate covers, and detail former Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan's attempts to establish ties with U.S. intelligence.

The documents supplied to CounterSpy deal with the triangle of U.S.-Israeli-Iranian relations. A careful reading of the documents illustrates that the Washington Post's analysis was narrowly focussed on the "U.S. angle." Other disclosures were simply glossed over — systematic Israeli suppression of domestic dissent, for example, or Mossad (Israel's CIA) and Israeli military intelligence support for repressive regimes in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and even Mossad's "psycholgical warfare projects."

The main document reprinted here is an in-depth CIA analysis of Israeli intelligence, written in March 1979 and classified secret. Other documents [not included in this online version] are cables between the State Department and the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, most of them discussing U.S.-Israeli-Iranian relations (documenting the close collaboration between Mossad and the Shah's intelligence agency SAVAK)....The most reliable response to the Post and Globe articles came from former Mossad chief Isser Harel, who in a Ma'ariv interview called the assertions of the document "malicious," "dilletantish," "distortions ... but probably authentic."

"The report is one-sided and malicious, it ignores Israel's special position in its struggle for survival,"Harel said. He also complained about the CIA document's style, calling it anti-Semitic. He told Ma'ariv it was "shockingly irresponsible" for the CIA to keep a document like this "rolling around" in the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Altogether, Harel concluded, publication of the document had been a "nightmare" for him.

Jack HawkinsWed Oct 22, 10:04:00 PM EDTThe Zionists have raveled the world, killing those the deem enemies.Even waiters in Europe that 'looked' like they were someone they were not.

The 'Mossad' has killed scores across Central America, helping to maintain the most rancid regimes in Guatemala, Panama, El Salvador and Honduras. Regimes that even the US refused to support, the Israeli jumped right in, teaching the techniques of population subjugation they had refined in Palestine.Techniques now being aught to US police orces across the land, fuckin' terrible things that are happening while we watch it occur.

The 13 volumes of documents are a goldmine. They expose covert CIA operations in Iran (an attempt to recurit former Prime Minister Bani Sadr, for example), reveal the CIA's use of corporate covers, and detail former Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan's attempts to establish ties with U.S. intelligence.

The documents supplied to CounterSpy deal with the triangle of U.S.-Israeli-Iranian relations. A careful reading of the documents illustrates that the Washington Post's analysis was narrowly focussed on the "U.S. angle." Other disclosures were simply glossed over — systematic Israeli suppression of domestic dissent, for example, or Mossad (Israel's CIA) and Israeli military intelligence support for repressive regimes in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and even Mossad's "psycholgical warfare projects."

The main document reprinted here is an in-depth CIA analysis of Israeli intelligence, written in March 1979 and classified secret. Other documents [not included in this online version] are cables between the State Department and the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, most of them discussing U.S.-Israeli-Iranian relations (documenting the close collaboration between Mossad and the Shah's intelligence agency SAVAK)....The most reliable response to the Post and Globe articles came from former Mossad chief Isser Harel, who in a Ma'ariv interview called the assertions of the document "malicious," "dilletantish," "distortions ... but probably authentic."

"The report is one-sided and malicious, it ignores Israel's special position in its struggle for survival,"Harel said. He also complained about the CIA document's style, calling it anti-Semitic. He told Ma'ariv it was "shockingly irresponsible" for the CIA to keep a document like this "rolling around" in the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Altogether, Harel concluded, publication of the document had been a "nightmare" for him.

The 13 volumes of documents are a goldmine. They expose covert CIA operations in Iran (an attempt to recurit former Prime Minister Bani Sadr, for example), reveal the CIA's use of corporate covers, and detail former Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan's attempts to establish ties with U.S. intelligence.

The documents supplied to CounterSpy deal with the triangle of U.S.-Israeli-Iranian relations. A careful reading of the documents illustrates that the Washington Post's analysis was narrowly focussed on the "U.S. angle." Other disclosures were simply glossed over — systematic Israeli suppression of domestic dissent, for example, or Mossad (Israel's CIA) and Israeli military intelligence support for repressive regimes in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and even Mossad's "psycholgical warfare projects."

The main document reprinted here is an in-depth CIA analysis of Israeli intelligence, written in March 1979 and classified secret. Other documents [not included in this online version] are cables between the State Department and the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, most of them discussing U.S.-Israeli-Iranian relations (documenting the close collaboration between Mossad and the Shah's intelligence agency SAVAK)....The most reliable response to the Post and Globe articles came from former Mossad chief Isser Harel, who in a Ma'ariv interview called the assertions of the document "malicious," "dilletantish," "distortions ... but probably authentic."

"The report is one-sided and malicious, it ignores Israel's special position in its struggle for survival,"Harel said. He also complained about the CIA document's style, calling it anti-Semitic. He told Ma'ariv it was "shockingly irresponsible" for the CIA to keep a document like this "rolling around" in the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Altogether, Harel concluded, publication of the document had been a "nightmare" for him.

Jack HawkinsWed Oct 22, 10:04:00 PM EDTThe Zionists have [t]raveled (sic) the world, killing those the[y] (sic) deem enemies. [missing subject or improper punctuation] Even (sic) waiters in Europe [who] that (sic) ["looked"] 'looked' (sic) like they were someone they were not.The [Mossad] 'Mossad' (sic) has killed scores [no antecedent] across Central America, helping to maintain the most rancid regimes in Guatemala, Panama, El Salvador [,] (sic) and Honduras. Regimes that even the US refused to support, [incorrect punctuation] the [Israelis] Israeli (sic) jumped right in [missing infinitive], teaching the techniques of population subjugation they had refined in Palestine. [ -- ] Techniques (sic) now being [t]aught (sic) to US police [f]orces (sic) across the land, [.] (sic) fuckin' (sic) terrible things that (sic) are happening while we watch [them] it (sic) occur.

for our English readers … a slightly corrected example …

The Zionists have traveled the world, killing those they deem enemies, including even waiters in Europe, who “looked” like they were someone they were not.

The Mossad has killed scores of people across Central America, helping to maintain the most rancid regimes in Guatemala, Panama, El Salvador, and Honduras. Regimes that even the US refused to support the Israelis jumped right in to help, teaching the techniques of population subjugation they had refined in Palestine; techniques now being taught to US police forces across the land by Mossad. Fuckin’ terrible things are happening while we watch them occur.

Back in the last thread, allen. Many, but certainly not all of them were listed.

Training the Trainers - but a Social Media Commando like you wouldn't know about that.

Israel Pays Students For Pro-Israeli Social Media Propaganda

The move was publicised in a statement from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office, the Associated Press reported. Students will receive scholarships to "engage international audiences online" and combat anti-Semitism and calls to boycott Israel, it was alleged.

In 2012, a Palestinian-run blog reported similar arrangements between the National Union of Israeli Students and the Israeli government. Students would be paid $2,000 to post pro-Israel messages online for five hours a week.

Students will be organised into units at each university, with a chief co-ordinator who receives a full scholarship, three desk co-ordinators for language, graphics and research who receive lesser scholarships and students termed “activists” who will receive a “minimal scholarship”, the Independent reported.

Beit-Hallahmi also details Israeli military involvement in South American countries, but most of the chapter on Latin America is devoted to Central America, where Israel has been most heavily involved. Central America developed into a high priority area for Israel in the late 1970s. By 1980 Israel had become the single major arms supplier to Central America. The station of the Mossad (the Israeli intelligence service) in Tegucigalpa was actually run by a Mossad deputy chief, an indication of Central America's significance for Israeli policymakers. The Mossad was responsible for all sensitive Israeli military-related operations in the region, such as training the Nicaraguan Contras. Thus Israel has become an intricate part of Central American history, and analysis of the region's recent history would be incomplete without considering the Israeli role. ...Jane Hunter's Israeli Foreign Policy: South Africa and Central America concentrates on the military component of that policy.

Hunter first provides background information on the development of the U.S.-Israeli relationship, the evolution of Israel's arms industry, Israeli arms sales, and her view of Israel as a proxy for the United States. She then devotes separate chapters to Israel's (primarily military) policy toward El Salvador and Guatemala and three chapters on Nicaragua. Hunter asks rhetorically, "What use is it to save Central America from death at the hands of U.S.-sponsored governments and mercenary bands if it is only to deliver them to the same clients and cutthroats courtesy of Israel?" (p. 185).

She concludes, "Until the message is received in Washington that an end to Israel's foreign activities is an integral part of the progressive agenda, Israel's ability to take on the rejected fragments of U.S. policies will remain a problem with profound consequences for politics and foreign policy decisions in this country [the United States]. For Israel's victims in Central America . . . and elsewhere, the consequences will be fatal" (pp. 199-200). ....Bishara Bahbah's Israel and Latin America: The Military Connection is a comprehensive study that extends beyond Israel's military role in Central America to include all of Latin America. ...Israel's arms clients are increasingly apt to be international pariah states or right-wing dictatorships waging war against their own people and in need of Israel's particular military expertise. And this will ultimately be to Israel's detriment politically, and certainly to the detriment of the populations of the countries it supplies. (Pp. 187-88)

Attack on Ukraine is indirect attack on EU and its principlesBloomberg

Hedge-fund legend George Soros, left, says Russia, under Vladimir Putin, poses an existential threat to the European Union.

ByWILLIAMWATTSREPORTER

Billionaire hedge-fund titan and philanthropist George Soros has long made clear he thinks the German-led push for unrelenting austerity across the eurozone endangers the survival of the European Union. Now he’s warning that Europe “is facing a challenge from Russia to its very existence.”

In an essay published in the New York Review of Books, Soros says it’s time for the 28 EU members to “wake up and behave as countries indirectly at war.”

But he fears European leaders and citizens aren’t fully aware of the Russian threat that he says extends beyond Ukraine, in part because the EU and the 18-member eurozone “lost their way” in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.

“Now Russia is presenting an alternative that poses a fundamental challenge to the values and principles on which the European Union was originally founded. It is based on the use of force that manifests itself in repression at home and aggression abroad, as opposed to the rule of law,” Soros wrote. “What is shocking is that Vladimir Putin’s Russia has proved to be in some ways superior to the European Union — more flexible and constantly springing surprises. That has given it a tactical advantage, at least in the near term.”

Soros warns that unless the EU abandons its adherence to austerity and moves to shore up Ukraine, Russia’s influence will only grow in Eastern Europe, magnifying the threat to Europe.

He concludes the essay with a plea for the EU to examine itself.

““The bureaucracy of the EU no longer has a monopoly of power and it has little to be proud of. It should learn to be more united, flexible, and efficient. And Europeans themselves need to take a close look at the new Ukraine,” he writes. “That could help them recapture the original spirit that led to the creation of the European Union. The European Union would save itself by saving Ukraine.”

While he was living with Baumbach as Sandor Kiss, an event occurred that more than half a century later would become the basis of charges that George Soros, the international financier and billionaire, had somehow collaborated with Nazi occupiers of his homeland and had exploited his fellow Jews.

The issue was raised in a television profile and interview of Soros aired on the CBS television program 60 Minutes in December of 1998. In the segment, Steve Kroft, the interviewed, noted with prosecutorial gusto that George’s father had “bribed a government official to swear that you were his godson,” and added that this survival strategy “carried a heavy price tag.”

For, he continued, “as hundreds of thousands of Jews were being shipped off to the Nazi death camps, a thirteen-year-old George Soros accompanied his phony godfather on his rounds, confiscating property from the Jews.”

Visibly dumbfounded by the line of questioning, Soros could only manage to say that he had no role in the seizure of property and was merely a spectator. To underscore Kroft’s point, film footage showed masses of Hungarian Jews being led away at gunpoint.http://www.georgesoros.com/faqs/entry/howgeorgesorossurvivednazis/

At the moment, however, Soros is battling his Nazi problem from a wholly different angle.

You see, while George W. Bush had not even yet been born in 1945, when real Nazis were perpetrating the real Holocaust, George Soros, as a teenager, was actually helping real Nazis confiscate the real property of real, about-to-be-“exterminated” Jews in his native Budapest, Hungary.

And no, this actual Nazi collaboration by a young George Soros was not an obscure tidbit dug up by opposition researchers. George Soros freely admitted his actions in the now-infamous Steve Kroft interview of 1998. Soros was shocked that the interview was so upsetting to so many and endeavored greatly to put the controversy to rest by giving more details and explanations to his biographer, Michael Kaufman.http://pjmedia.com/blog/george-soros-nazi-obsessive/

What is it with the ass-bole doctor that is compelled to go to Africa to help fight Ebola, returns to the US and then decides to travel on NYC subways, take taxis and go bowling putting New York City at risk?

Senior members of the Sunni Muslim extremist group, the Islamic State, have disappeared from Mosul and Tikrit. Sources suggest they defected for a number of reasons: they fear the end is nigh for their group, the threat posed by unhappy former allies who have already assassinated some of their number and because of promises of money and safety.

Last week was a tough week for the Sunni Muslim extremist group known as the Islamic State, or IS. It had incurred serious losses of manpower in strongholds in both Syria and Iraq.

Figures released by the Iraqi Ministries of Defence and the Interior suggest that the IS group lost around 400 fighters in Iraq and reports from Syria say as many as 500 IS fighters have been killed there, particularly around Kobani where there is fierce fighting but also in strongholds like Raqqa, where airstrikes by an international coalition are having an impact.

And it seems that some of the leaders in the IS group now feel that the writing is on the wall and that the IS group won’t be able to hold onto power for much longer.

Confidential information from inside Iraq military intelligence obtained by NIQASH says that several senior leaders in the IS group have disappeared from areas the group controls – most particularly from inside Mosul, the northern city the group considers it’s Iraqi capital, and from parts of the Salahaddin province.

NIQASH’s source inside Iraqi intelligence says that most of the IS group leaders who disappeared are field commanders, men responsible for administration of combatants and territorial sectors. Most of them are Iraqis too – they are not from among the IS group’s Arab or foreign fighters. And apparently the group of defectors also includes one Ali al-Hamadani, who is thought to be very close to the group’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as well as another senior leader whose name is unknown as yet but who was allegedly responsible for al-Baghdadi’s personal protection.

Asked as to why these senior members may have defected, the source told NIQASH that it was down to the success of local and foreign infiltration into the organisation. The senior members had been promised money and protection, their future safety guaranteed if they left the IS group and gave up information about the group’s plans and movements.

It is also thought that the senior leaders are leaving because they fear that the IS group will not last much longer in Iraq and that they might eventually be killed. If they are caught though, they will also be killed as the sentence for betraying the organization, as decreed by its leader, al-Baghdadi, is also death.

There has also been a rumor that al-Baghdadi had been moving a large amount of money around, smuggling it out of Iraq and investing it with friendly businessmen in the Gulf States in order to ensure that the IS group has financial stability – in case, one imagines, they lose the money-making territory they currently control.

After rumors about the defection of these senior leaders began to circulate, the IS group held one of their traditional demonstrations of strength and power, organising a parade of vehicles and manpower through Mosul’s streets.

Locals say that other senior members of the IS group –including the group’s spokesperson, Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, the IS-appointed governor of Mosul, Abu Bakr al-Khatouni, and the group’s military leader in Tal Afar, Abu Ala al-afro – all returned from Syria to take over the posts left empty by the deserters.

After the IS group’s military parade ended, there was a wave of arrests in Mosul, during which many of the former police and military men still living in the city, who had repented for their past jobs, were taken away. They are apparently now being held in former government buildings that the IS group uses as prisons there.

One of the other reasons for the defections are the ongoing threats presented by armed groups inside Mosul, says Zakaria al-Hattab, who leads one of the anti-IS group militias working inside the city. There have been a number of IS members assassinated by unknown assailants in the city.

“Armed factions in Mosul are not yet able to confront the IS group openly,” says al-Hattab, who is currently in Erbil in the semi-autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan. But, al-Hattab, adds, he and a group of others are forming militias to try and do exactly that.The majority of the IS leaders responsible for Mosul’s security and services are Iraqis and possibly also longer-term residents of the city. “Everybody knows them and everybody hates them,” al-Hattab explained to NIQASH. “And the tribal leaders in Mosul who are against the IS group have already made threats against the group’s senior members, saying they will chase them out of the city and kill them once IS is defeated. That’s what has scared these men and they’ve decided to leave before it’s too late.”

“The IS group leaders who defected left because they realized that the whole world was waging war against them,” suggests Rashid al-Samarrai, a local security expert. “They also know that the international coalition is going to benefit hugely from information they’re gleaning on the IS group’s plans and its hiding places.”

Additionally, al-Samarrai says, a lot of the most recent recruits to the IS group in Iraq are locals and former members of Saddam Hussein’s army and intelligence services. Many of them undertook religious training only after, or shortly before, they joined the IS group.“Senior leaders in the IS group are military personnel who have been trained in warfare,” al-Samarrai says. “They only embraced radical religious thinking a few years ago and their belief in this system is actually fairly weak when compared to the core membership of the IS group, who have embraced radical religious ideas since they were young. The latter group would find it much harder to betray the organisation because they truly believe in it.”

You can't convince me that we're killing less than 3 people (on average) when we drop a guided 500 lb. bomb, or fire off a Hellfire Missile.

What everyone is missing is, how many headcutters our allies are killing. We don't announce it every time Saudi Arabia, UAE, France, or the U.K. makes a strike. Evidently, if they're flying "with us," and clear it, we include their actions in with the results, but otherwise we leave it up to them to file their own action reports.

These headcutters are getting beat up pretty good, and it's only going to get worse.

You're not taking into account the Israeli-style use of knock-knock rounds to let the poor people in those tanks or prepared positions evacuate. Because the last thing we want our military to do is compound their oppression when their primary mission is outreach.

What is it with the ass-bole doctor that is compelled to go to Africa to help fight Ebola, returns to the US and then decides to travel on NYC subways, take taxis and go bowling putting New York City at risk?

And now, after weeks of the liberal media sitting in mid-town Manhattan telling the people of Dallas not to panic, there's a solid line of limousines heading to the Hamptons.

Raytheon, a major American defense contractor and the world’s largest producer of guided missiles, has won an Israeli contract to supply $149.3 million in Tamir missiles, the projectiles used in Israel’s Iron Dome defense system.

Get ready for a special Jack Van Impe show on 10-26-14! It's about the coming war with Russia!!!

This is the same Jack Van Impe who, regarding Y2K, marketed a video called 2000 Time Bomb in which he claimed:

"The dire warnings in this emergency video are gleaned exclusively from secular experts in over 300 reports. The facts: No event in history has connected mankind to one common adversary until now. The millennial bug jeopardizes our way of life in ways never imagined. I was going to make this video next year, around February, March. But the Holy Spirit awakened me a few months ago and warned me as to what was coming and that I should warn you. And I'll tell you, this is perhaps the most important video you'll ever receive concerning your own survival and what to do to prepare for what's coming." (Jack Van Impe Show, September 28, 1998)

So by all means get your emergency Russia war video too, so it can be stacked next to the Peak Oil ones in Goodwill.

This week we had our annual Torpedo Certification and Evaluation Board (big military Procedure Compliance inspection with all the trimmins), and by Thursday afternoon we figured we were flying through it but I told my boss that "All the hay ain't in the barn yet."

Oct 24 (Reuters) - French fighter jets destroyed 12 buildings in Iraq holding an arsenal of weapons under control of Islamic State militants, France's chief of staff of armed forces said on Friday.

"Tonight we undertook a big operation in Iraq in which we destroyed buildings in which Daesh (Islamic State) was producing traps, bombs, arms to attack the Iraqi forces," Pierre de Villiers told Europe 1 radio.

France was the first country to join the U.S.-led coalition in air strikes on IS insurgents in Iraq in September and has stepped up the pace of its air strikes this month.

Besides air strikes and reconnaissance missions, operations have also included training local Iraqi forces and delivering equipment to Kurdish fighters in the country's north.

Coalition forces dropped 70 bombs, including 12 dropped by France which completely destroyed its targets, de Villiers said, without specifying the location of the operation. (Reporting By Alexandria Sage; editing by Mark John)

If you don't like the Grand Jury decsion - and let's face it, the saying is true, a Grand Jury made up of Citizen Idiots can indite a Ham Sand....if you don't like it let's protest by robbing the Liquor Store.

During the most recent Jewish year, 5774, aliya from around the world increased by more than 30 percent, reaching some 25,000 immigrants.

The Zionist project of ingathering the exiles is undergoing a historic shift: We are moving from an aliya of rescue to an aliya of free choice.

During the most recent Jewish year, 5774, aliya from around the world increased by more than 30 percent, reaching some 25,000 immigrants.

Behind this huge increase are two highly symbolic developments.

First, the number of olim (immigrants) from the United States, Canada, Western Europe and Australia – traditionally considered the core countries of the free world – reached a 40-year high, surpassing the number of olim from the rest of the world for the first time in Israel’s history.

Second, the rate of aliya from France, the point of origin for the greatest number of olim over the past year, is so high that moving to Israel is no longer an unusual or unexpected choice there. As a result, for the first time, there is now a large Jewish community in the free world – the second-largest, in fact, after the United States – for which aliya is a normal part of life.

The fact that a majority of Israel’s many immigrants are coming from free and prosperous countries, with democratically elected governments and developed economies, is among the most noteworthy changes in immigration patterns in the history of our state. Until now, every massive wave of immigration has been primarily the product of violence and hardship, as Jews fled intolerable circumstances in the hope of finding better ones in Israel.

Israel is ingathering the BEST, Brightest and most dynamic of it's exiles.

You know, tech writer is a decent job. In Rufusworld, all Americans should have the right to be a tech writer, otherwise we are denying them decent jobs. For instance, if I was paid to provide the example on HTML that I did above, it's not fair that only I should have the opportunity to make a living wage doing so. In Rufusworld, we'd pay Farmer Bob to take a crack at it.

Jack HawkinsWed Oct 22, 10:04:00 PM EDTThe Zionists have [t]raveled (sic) the world, killing those the[y] (sic) deem enemies. [missing subject or improper punctuation] Even (sic) waiters in Europe [who] that (sic) ["looked"] 'looked' (sic) like they were someone they were not.The [Mossad] 'Mossad' (sic) has killed scores [no antecedent] across Central America, helping to maintain the most rancid regimes in Guatemala, Panama, El Salvador [,] (sic) and Honduras. Regimes that even the US refused to support, [incorrect punctuation] the [Israelis] Israeli (sic) jumped right in [missing infinitive], teaching the techniques of population subjugation they had refined in Palestine. [ -- ] Techniques (sic) now being [t]aught (sic) to US police [f]orces (sic) across the land, [.] (sic) fuckin' (sic) terrible things that (sic) are happening while we watch [them] it (sic) occur.

for our English readers … a slightly corrected example …

The Zionists have traveled the world, killing those they deem enemies, including even waiters in Europe, who “looked” like they were someone they were not.

The Mossad has killed scores of people across Central America, helping to maintain the most rancid regimes in Guatemala, Panama, El Salvador, and Honduras. Regimes that even the US refused to support the Israelis jumped right in to help, teaching the techniques of population subjugation they had refined in Palestine; techniques now being taught to US police forces across the land by Mossad. Fuckin’ terrible things are happening while we watch them occur.

That $143.00 / month doesn't even come close to paying for Medicare. Medicare is primarily paid for by all the younger people.

The money for expanded Medicaid that Texas is turning down has already been paid in (some of it, from Texas taxpayers.) It's free for the taking. If idiot legislators in Texas, Mississippi, and Idaho don't take it, it will just go to other uses - a little bit in Texas, idiots et al, and the biggest part to California, New York, etc.

I tend to agree that Texas (and the other states currently refusing the Obamacare Medicaid dollars) should reconsider and take the money. If they don't take the money, it is likely the FEDS will simply waste the money on something else. You know it will be spent.

I haven't really paid much attention to the subject so I am not sure what rationale is being offered by the various states not currently taking the money. Likewise, I'm not sure if in refusing the money Texas is actually acting on principle or is just cutting off its nose to spite its face. If the former, I can sympathize. The FEDS have a long history of offering incentives (free money if you like) and then pulling the rug out on those programs in the future. Medicaid is the poster child for such actions.

That being said, one certainty with the FEDS is its a matter of 'fuck me now or fuck me later' and if you are going to be fucked you might as well get paid for it.

However, those that use the words 'free money' when speaking of FED programs are either attempting to delude the audience or have already deluded themselves. The Obamacare Medicaid dollars being offered are not free money but more like splitting up the loot after a successful heist. Those that speak of 'free money' are like those dolts that say the national debt isn't $17 trillion but rather somewhere around $12 - $13 trillion after they remove intergovernmental transfers associated with programs like Medicare and SS. They offer us a distinction without a difference ignoring the fact that as a nation we have spent $17 trillion we didn't have rather than $12 trillion that we didn't have.

Rat gave vent to his Adolph instead of his Asimov and now cannot answer two simple questions:

1) What American police forces have been trained by Mossad?

2) What "fuckin' terrible things are happening while we watch them occur" that are the result of Mossad training?

He also does not know the definition of assassination. For example, the Muslim source to which he linked considers the untimely and unnatural deaths of the Black September assassins of the Israel team at Munich as assassination. You may recall that the Germans et al gave these butchers a free pass out of Europe. Since the Germans had no interest in pursuing justice, Israel -- it is claimed -- executed the assassins extra-judicially. While I admit to looking at the Munich "assassinations", I have no idea how Rat's Muslim source viewed the raid on Entebbe. My revulsion at touching such filth has not been overcome by my sense of curiosity.

Ordinarily, I do not critique the writing of others for errors in composition. This is a blog, after all, and everyone makes mistakes. I took on Rat’s piece because 1) its theses were execrably false and 2) I wanted to show the weakness in his communication skills as a non-native English speaker. Using “bullet point” structure is a legitimate and economical method of summarization, particularly when time is a factor to the audience. However, bullet points are expected to exhibit accepted rules of grammatical construction; Rat’s do not.

Oxford DictionaryAssassinate: VERBMurder (an important person) in a surprise attack for political or religious reasons.Assassination: NOUNThe act of …

Yesterday in Atlanta, the Mossad forced some of the "Gentile Giant's" supporters onto the I-75/I-85 exchange to block interstate commerce. The Atlanta police force and the Georgia Highway Patrol moved in with armor, dogs, gas, live rounds coated with Ebola, and industrial sandblasters. OMG, it was a massacre! ... just kidding ... No arrests were made. Instead, the ass wipes were permitted to inconvenience thousands of motorists.

U.S. and allied aircraft pounded the Islamic State group on Thursday and Friday with 12 air strikes in Iraq and six raids near the contested Syrian town of Kobane, the American military said.

U.S. Central Command, which is overseeing the air war against the jihadists, announced the latest round of air raids after the French military said a coalition operation overnight had dropped dozens of bombs on an IS arsenal and training camp in northern Iraq.

U.S.-led warplanes -- including fighter jets and drones -- carried out three air raids southeast and west of the Mosul Dam in the north, destroying two vehicles and a mortar position, Central Command said in a statement.

Three strikes south of the Baiji oil refinery struck two small units and destroyed a vehicle, and two strikes near Baiji targeted an IS training camp, it said.

U.S. military officials say Iraqi government forces are trying to roll back IS militants on the main route leading out of Baghdad north to Baiji but have been slowed in part by numerous roadside bombs planted by the militants.

Coalition aircraft also attacked the Sunni extremists near Fallujah, west of Baghdad, striking two small IS units and destroying three vehicles. And one raid near Zumar destroyed five buildings, Central Command said.

Referring to the overnight bombing, France said the air raids were a . . . . .

SALT LAKE CITY – Gov. Gary Herbert said Thursday that he’s reached a tentative deal with federal officials over his alternative plan to expand Medicaid, and he will ask state lawmakers to sign off during their next session.

Herbert, speaking at his monthly televised news conference on KUED, said he will get the terms in writing and meet with legislative leaders in mid-November to go over them.

The governor was originally pushing for a special legislative session, but he said it’s too late in the year.

Despite the deal, the Republican governor said he’s still opposed to the health care law.

“We have lemons and I’m trying to make lemonade out of it,” Herbert said.

http://quixoteslaststand.com/2014/10/23/professor-emeritus-of-earth-sciences-industrial-wind-turbines-live-the-life-of-a-parasite/PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF EARTH SCIENCES: INDUSTRIAL WIND TURBINES LIVE THE LIFE OF A PARASITE

"A wind farm using 660-kilowatt generators requires 7,600 generators at 20 per cent efficiency to produce 1,000 megawatts. At $2,000 per kilowatt installation, this would cost $10 billion. This is more than twice the cost of a reliable, clean, coal-fired 1,000-megawatt generator."

At least two of the four law enforcement agencies that were deployed in Ferguson up until Thursday evening — the St. Louis County Police Department and the St. Louis Police Department — received training from Israeli security forces in recent years....The ADL boasts of sending more than 175 senior US law enforcement officials from 100 different agencies to the seminar since 2004, which are “taking the lessons they learned in Israel back to the United States.”...Another is the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), a neoconservative think tank that claims to have hosted some 9,500 law enforcement officials in its Law Enforcement Exchange Program (LEEP) since 2004.

U.S. police officials who have undergone such training have come from the Los Angeles and New York police departments, the New York and New Jersey Port Authority Police Department, the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police, and the Major County Sheriffs’ Association. The fact that the former chief of Missouri’s St. Louis County Police Department trained in Israel in 2011 recently came to light following the well-armed police response to protestors in St. Louis-based Ferguson.ewish Groups Pay to Send U.S. Police to Train in Israel

During the Bush administration, Israeli-American dual citizen and Director of Homeland Security Chertoff mandated that American police forces be trained by Israeli groups in crowd control, counter-terrorism and intelligence gathering.

Since that time, shootings of unarmed civilians has gone up 500%, attacks on legal political protests by police have become a scandal and huge stockpiles of ammunition and military heavy weaponry have been distributed to law enforcement groups in every region of America, both local and federally controlled.

Marysville Pilchuck - Pathways of Choice High School, located in Marysville, Washington, USA,[1] is a public secondary school for grades 9-12 and is part of the Marysville School District. School days are organized into six periods. MPHS boasts the largest indoor swimming pool in Snohomish County, and is a popular destination for high school indoor water sports fans.

Does this sound like an "inner city" school?

How about if I add this in:

Academy of Construction and Engineering, Bio-Med Academy, International School of Communications, and School for the Entrepreneur

The mission consists of law enforcement professionals from local, state and national agencies including the New York State Police, New York Police Department, New Jersey State Police, Massachusetts State Police, Boston Police Department, Maine State Police, Hartford Police Department, Suffolk County Police Department, Salem Police Department, Quincy Police Department,Pittsfield Police Department, Lower Merion Police Department, and Westchester Intelligence Center General Hospital.

The ADL delegation consisted of executives from the California Highway Patrol and major city police departments from across the country including: New York, Philadelphia, Houston, Dallas, Atlantic City,Louisville, Richmond, Tulsa, Nashville, Charlotte, Albuquerque, and St. Louis County..."

Eran Efrati is an Israeli soldier and he has a message to the people of the United States. That message is a shocking one… Eran Efrati explains that “if you don’t care about Palestinians… You guys should know: you are next in line.”

In a nutshell, what happens to the Palestinians, if you are indifferent to their suffering, is what will happen to you next.

The 28-year-old Efrati was born in Jerusalem, and served in the Israeli Defense Forces. His role in the IDF as a combat soldier and company sergeant in Battalion 50 of the Nachal Division afforded him first hand insight into just what Palestinians experience. Contrary to the dismissals of many Israeli hawks, Efrati says that the reports out of Gaza are very much true.

Though much of his military service was in Hebron and the rest of the West Bank, he also saw Gaza first hand and knows the sorts of things that have gone on there in the past and more recently.

Back in 2009, Efrati was discharged from the IDF and joined the organization known as Breaking the Silence. Breaking the Silence is organization of veteran Israeli soldiers which seeks to raise awareness about the reality of Palestinian suffering in both Gaza and the West Bank.

Efrati works as the chief investigator for the veterans peace organization, collecting testimonies from former and current IDF soldiers. He also serves as a guide on political tours through parts of the West Bank.

Efrati wants Americans who are indifferent towards the suffering of Palestinians to know that what effects one, effects all. If we don’t care about what is happening to the people of Gaza and Palestine in general, that very apathy will bring these very same things to our front doors…

“If you don’t care about Palestinians… You guys should know: you are next in line. The next one who will die from a tear gas canister into his chest will be in Zucotti Park, will be in Denver, will be in Oakland, in San Francisco. It is happening here already. It is happening to different people, to people of color, to immigrants in this country, it is already happening. You guys are next in line. The next one will die out of brutality of the police will be one of your sons or your daughters–in a protest.

Because they [U.S. police] are training together. Your police–training with our army. Our army is training them how to take care of the enemy. . . . But when they come back, you are their enemy.”

Help spread Efrati’s important message. Watch the video below and help get the word out!

Magnificent Ronald and the Founding Fathers of al Qaeda

“These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America’s founding fathers.” — Ronald Reagan while introducing the Mujahideen leaders to media on the White house lawns (1985). During Reagan’s 8 years in power, the CIA secretly sent billions of dollars of military aid to the mujahedeen in Afghanistan in a US-supported jihad against the Soviet Union. We repeated the insanity with ISIS against Syria.